Sheardown Family History
Sheardown Name Meaning
perhaps a nickname deriving from Middle English sheren doun ‘to cut (woven fabric) from (the loom)’ or doun sheren ‘to overturn [something]’ or from some sense of sheren ‘to cut’ seen also in the medieval Sherberd and modern Shergold .
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016